Considering the fact that moisture is the number one enemy of your home, it is fitting that a good home inspector should use a non invasive moisture meter during each and every home inspection.  A high quality, non invasive moisture meter can be a fair investment.  In the bigger picture, however, where a client is potentially making THEIR bigggest investment ever, it is essential that your home inspector carry and use this tool in a variety of areas around the home being inspected.  This instrument will detect moisture that could otherwise easily go unnoticed.  A qualified home inspector will also know where to perform random moisture testing.  

The role of a certified home inspector is to help reduce the risk of buying a house.  When looking for or recommending a home inspector, you should ensure that they routinely use a non invasive moisture meter over the course of the home inspection for vulnerable areas of the home, such as the basement and under plumbing fixtures.  

Paul-Marc Abrioux

Abrioux Home Inspections

http://www.AbriouxHomeInspections.com

Infrared technology is quickly becoming an essential part of a thorough home inspection.  It provides the potential home buyer, who is considering a major investment, with additional protection.  A home inspector properly trained in thermal imaging technology can even further help reduce the risk of buying a home.   Thermal imaging does not replace competent home inspecting and clients should ensure that their home inspector is properly trained.  Thermal imaging does, however, enable the inspector to perform a more thorough inspection than the naked eye alone.  This technology displays differences in surface temperature, which are often otherwise invisible.  As water has a different thermal mass than most building materials, moisture will usually heat and cool at a different rate than its surroundings.  A thermal imaging camera will pick up these differences in temperature and guide the home inspector to further investigate.  Moisture, electrical heat spots and insulation issues (lack of) are often found with a thermal imaging camera.  It is ultimately the potential home buyer that must make an important decision, and thermal imaging technology helps both real estate agents and home inspectors provide the best service for their clients.   

Paul-Marc Abrioux  

Certified Home Inspector

Infrared Certified^TM

http://www.AbriouxHomeInspections.com

Does your home inspector use thermal imaging technology?

That is an important question you should be asking when looking for a home inspector.  This technology simply allows the home inspector to see more.  Moisture entry, electrical heat spots and insulation issues often appear with a thermal imaging scan that would otherwise go unnoticed to the naked eye.  While expensive, this technology is the way of the future.  Your home inspector can make a much better assessment of the condition of a home with this technology.

 Visit my website at www.AbriouxHomeInspections.com and click on Thermal Imaging to see photos of everyday home inspections findings...that would have gone unnoticed without the thermal imaging technology.

Paul-Marc Abrioux

InterNACHI Certified Home Inspector

Infrared Certified

http://www.abriouxhomeinspections.com